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![[Linked Image]](http://i861.photobucket.com/albums/ab175/pagm77/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG-20150805-WA0013_zpssi8f5g6z.jpg) Not an Eastern Cape kudu 
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What a machine. Obviously in rut, if you look at his neck.
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Best looking animal in all of Africa.
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Had a big wide one like that give me the slip years ago...still haunts me...
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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I imagine the shipping company would have some surcharge for that width!
www.huntingadventures.netAre you living your life, or just paying bills until you die? When you hit the pearly gates I want to be there just to see the massive pile of dead 5hit at your feet. ( John Peyton)
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Best looking animal in all of Africa. Agree 100%.
It is irrelevant what you think. What matters is the TRUTH.
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You need to shoot a Sable..... 
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Had a big wide one like that give me the slip years ago...still haunts me... Ditto. Tracked him all day in the rain. Never could get on him. Best hunting day of my life.
"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
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Mine was a classic kudu story...spotted a bachelor band of 3 bulls, including the wide one. Put the high octane ninja-sneak on them, got there, and there were only two bulls.....
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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I think about this one almost every day......really. [img:left] ![[Linked Image]](http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t32/JGrimes_2007/FullSizeRender_zpsuw9lriwm.jpg) [/img]
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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
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Thanks. Awesome animals...... [img:left] ![[Linked Image]](http://i156.photobucket.com/albums/t32/JGrimes_2007/P1000585_zpsz3siegty.jpg) [/img]
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I think most of you guys have seen this, but it's my favorite trophy, and I'm almost afraid to admit, it was a relatively easy hunt. Spotted him whilst driving a dry river bed, he ran off and we tracked him for all of five minutes. He stood broadside at 125 yards and the 375 did the rest. 58 3/4" very tight curls. ![[Linked Image]](http://www.lavikinga.com/jorge/hunt2.jpg)
A good principle to guide me through life: “This is all I have come to expect, standard lackluster performance. Trust nothing, believe no one and realize it will only get worse…”
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"What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly: it is dearness only that gives every thing its value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price upon its goods; and it would be strange indeed if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated." Thomas Paine
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Greater Kudu, taken in Namibia. He was running with a smaller bull- both appeared at the edge of heavy brush, offering a quick shot. Longer of the two horns is 58". Rifle is my .300 Wby Mk. V. ![[Linked Image]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-vbcr2H8hBMU/VcUfL7_gFkI/AAAAAAAAA9c/ZvFGu5LUzSg/s720-Ic42/Kuduafrica.jpg)
I'd rather be a free man in my grave, than living as a puppet or a slave....
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I'm pretty proud of this one. And it's not mine. Youngest daughter shot this one last June. Both horns a hair over 60". Lucky kid who shoots well. I should add she shot it with my .375. Didn't bother her a bit. Tough kid who is not intimidated by much and I'm incredibly proud of her. ![[Linked Image]](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q255/FishN4Eyes/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_4468_zps811943c0.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q255/FishN4Eyes/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_4476_zps330e7fd4.jpg) ![[Linked Image]](http://i138.photobucket.com/albums/q255/FishN4Eyes/Mobile%20Uploads/IMG_2394_zpsf6484a74.jpg)
Last edited by FishN4Eyes; 08/07/15.
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Wow! Great bulls fellas. I never get tired of looking at them.
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I have one that is I think 55, but 40 in between the tips if I remember correctly.
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My one and only Kudu. We tracked him for hours earlier but he gave us the slip. By chance spotted we him that evening and stalked for less than a mile. He was very distinctive due to the one bent horn and the guides had seen him a couple years earlier, but nobody had seen him again until I showed up. ![[Linked Image]](http://i163.photobucket.com/albums/t292/inmanta/DSC00828.jpg)
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